Nujabes is a Japanese hip-hop and Jazz musician, DJ, producuer, he passed away at a young age of 36, in a car accident in Tokyo.
Nujabes created a buzz about Japanese [...]

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If you’ve ever got a date to have one of those awkward dinners where you’re meeting up with someone to whom you’re pretty sure you’ve got nothing to say, it’s [...]

Tags: Akihabara, anime, Cross Dressing, Cross-dressing maids, crossplay, Culture & Society, Food, Japan, Medieval Times, New Type Cafe, Otaku, Photo of the Day, Photography, photo_of_the_day, Rainforest Cafe, Taboos, Theme Restaurants, Tokyo
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Last year, a picture was floating around the newswires of Kirsten Dunst, all dolled out in an anime-inspired outfit, wandering Tokyo. Back then, we guessed it was her attempt at [...]

Tags: Akihabara, anime, art, Harajuku, Kirsten Dunst, London, McG, Pop Art, Racist, Takashi Murakami, Tate, Tate Modern, Teh Vapors, The Tate, The Vapors, Tokyo, Turning Japanese, Video
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Chinese New Year isn’t just for China anymore. My first real Chinese New Year’s was in Beijing in 2008, when I learned to make dumplings, took a nap, and watched [...]

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This weekend presents the intersection of my three favorite events — Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, and President’s Day. Okay, well not President’s Day. But I do care a lot [...]

Tags: Angela Merkel, Bakers, Baking, Bipasha Basu, China, Chocolate, Chocolate Spa, Cookies, Diamonds, German Gardening Association, Germany, Global, Godiva, Hakone, India, Japan, Kissing, Kissing Competition, Muslim, Pakistan, Photos, romance, Sea Lions, Seals, Shanghai, shopping, Spa, Takishamaya, Tet, Tokyo, USA, Valentine's Day, Vietnam, Zhengda plaza
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To win the crown, trophy, and red-ribbon that festoons a “Miss Japan,” one must both parade around a hotel ballroom in an aqua bikini and gracefully look natural in a [...]

Tags: Aimi Azuma, Ami Suzuki, beautiful women, Beauty Contest, Bikinis, Hanako Suzuki, Hot women, Japan, Kagawa, Kyoko Honda, Mana Hayashi, Mina Hayashi, Miss Japan, Sayo Koijima, Sayo Kojima, Sexy Ladies, Swimsuit Contest, Tokyo
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“Save some face, you know you’ve only got one. Change your ways when you’re young.” It seems The Killers’ took their own advice. The band’s saved face, bucked up to their exhaustion and they’retaking a break from their nearly non-stop touring schedule for “unforseen circumstances.” What totally STINKS is that they’ve canceled all its gigs in Asia. Want your money back? We’ll tell you how.

Tags: Asia, Asia Tour, Australia Tour, Beijing, Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Hong Kong, How to Get Refunds, Information, Las Vegas, Live Nation, Manila, O Music, Odyssey, Philippines, Refunds, Save Face, Seoul, Singapore, Smile Like You Mean It, Somebody Told Me, The Killers, Ticketnet, Ticketworld, Tokyo, Tour, Tour Dates, Unforseen Circumstances
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I wrote that McDonalds Japan released an “American burger” series, and that first one would be the “Texas Burger” which has BBQ sauce, fried onions, bacon, cheese, and spicy mustard. [...]

Tags: Advertising, Fast Food, Food, Garbage, Hamburgers, Japan, Kugimiya Disease, Marketing, McDonald's, Rie Kugimiya, Sports, Tokyo, Tsundere, Tsundere Karuta, Yoyogi Park
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t know who Tera Patrick is (though probably your boyfriend does, as mine did), you’ll still want to read about how she slept for three [...]

Tags: Biography, Biography of Tera Patrick, Biohazard, Book Review, Brooklyn, Empowerment, Evan Seinfeld, Feminism, Film, Gotham Books, Heavy Metal, Johnny Depp, Las Vegas, Linda Ann Hopkins, Margaret Cho, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Porn, Pornography, Reign of Tera, review, Sinner Takes All, Telemarketer, Tera Patrick, Teravision, The Biz, Tokyo, USO, XXX
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You’re visiting Tokyo’s Akihabara district for some quality “maid” time. The cafes in the district offer hot maids, chubby maids, ear-cleaning maids and more, but you don’t like girls. And [...]

Tags: Akihabara, Akihabara cafes, Butler cafes, cosplay, Cross-dressing maids, Hibari-kei, Honey Sheep, Japan, maid cafes, male maids, Nomidokoro Wood, nostril challenge, Otaku, Royal Milk, Tokyo
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If you find yourself without a party to go to or just want to play it low key this New Year’s Eve check out your [...]

Tags: AMC, Antiknock, Ayumi Hamasaki, Billionaire Masquerade Ball, Bowery Ballroom, Burn Notice, Café de Paris, Case 39, Kate Hudson, masquerade ball, Monet Ballroom, New Year’s Eve, Nicole Kidman, Nine, Patti Smith, Penelope Cruz, Peter Jackson, Renee Zellweger, Santos Party House, Screamfest, Speeddater, Stitch, Suzie Salmon, SyFy, The Lovely Bones, Tokyo, TV marathon, Twilight Zone, USA, Zijoji Temple
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Free music from Tokyo? What’s the catch? There is none!
Music download service LimeWire runs a series of free download compilations that, each time around, feature the strummings of a different [...]

Tags: 8 bit, Aonami, Cow'p, Daisuke Tanabe, DJ Honda, DJ Kentaro, Download, Downloads, Electro, Free Downloads, Free Music, Gr3yman & Valerye Boybender, Hifana, Himawari, Hip-Hop, Ino Hidefumi, Japan, Kenichiro Nishihara, Nomak, OHGA, SEEDA, Shingo2, Shuta Hasunuma, Skunk Heads, Tetrad The Gang of Four, Tokyo, Tom Yum Samurai
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OMG. If you hated Baby Geniuses for all its hokey stupidity you’ll love this new documentary. It’s the classy, Focus Features version of a baby movie, and tries none of [...]

Tags: Babies, Baby Geniuses, Film, Focus Features, Japan, Mongollia, Movie, Namibia, Raising Arizona, San Francisco, Scrooge, Tokyo, Trailer, USA
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Just in case you think Poketo is still solely in the business of making radical limited edition art-covered wallets, this post is for you. They make other stuff. Lots of cool i-want-it other stuff, like, kawaii up the whazoo (more on that right after this, pinky swear…)!

Tags: Andrew Holder, Argentina, Australia, Buenos Aires, California, Fashion, Japan, Karaoke, kawaii, Korea, Lo Martin, Lo's List, Los Angeles, Maikon Nery, Melbourne, Moscow, Poketo, Russia, Sarajo Frieden, Seoul, South America, T-Shirt Tuesdays, Tokyo, United States
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If you thought Fran Drescher’s Long Island was the home of the world’s most luxe, glamorous, some might say “over-the-top” nail art, you’re wrong. The home of the world’s biggest [...]

Tags: Anna Tsuchiya, Beautician, Beauty, Britain, Kyoko Fukada, location:Japan, Manicure, Manicures, Melon, Nail, Nail Art, Nail Expo, Tokyo, Tsubasa Masuwaka, Union Jack
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OMG, guys — New Moon comes out this Friday. THIS FRIDAY. So everyday this week, we’ll be bringing you a slew of tidbits you didn’t know about the movie, the [...]

Tags: Alloy Entertainment, Berlin, Fan Tour, fans, Fans! Fans! Fans!, Germany, Japan, Kristen Stewart, mexico, Munich, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Stephanie Meyer, Tokyo, Twilight
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For those of you who don’t already know and love Tokyo’s Boom Boom Satellites, the guys have been producing a unique mix-up mash-up of electro and rock since way [...]

Tags: Boom Boom Satellites, Club, Dance, Electro, Flo-Rida, Hip-Hop, Japan, Kick it Out, Los Angeles, Moby, music video, Rock, Single, Tahj Mowry, Tokyo, Video
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The magazine “Nikkei Trendy” has released its list of “Hit Products of 2009.” It’s already time to discuss this kind of topic? Wow! Time has shot by like an arrow.
No.1 [...]

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The Tokyo Metro manner poster for November is good one.  Ha ha ha… it’s a good before/after. By the way, my American friend said he doesn’t care that women put [...]

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CEATEC is held now. The HRP-4C robot sings a song with Yamaha’s Vocaloid.

I prefer this usuful robot, it wipe your floor like an inchworm with a nanofiber cloth to wipe [...]

Tags: CEATEC 2009, Cleaning Robot, Fukitorimushi, HRP-4C, Japan, Robots, Singing Robot, Tokyo, Vocaloid, Yamaha, YouTube
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